PRESBY UNIVERSITY ADMITS 300 STUDENTS (PAGE 11, OCT 30)

THE Presbyterian University College (PUC) last Saturday, held its seventh matriculation at Abetifi with 300 students from the institution’s three campuses admitted to pursue various programmes.
The students will be pursuing their studies at the Asante-Akyem (Agogo), Akropong-Akuapem and Abetifi campuses of the university.
Addressing the ceremony, the Principal of the institution, Professor K. Sraku-Lartey, said after six years of operation there was the need for the institution to reposition itself to achieve more academically.
To this end, he indicated that plans were far advanced for a double enrollment in five years and to work hard to obtain a charter within the same period, while more innovative and demand driven programmes would be introduced.
“With the assistance of the chief and people of Obo, we plan to introduce a faculty of Science and Technology at the Okwahu campus and intensify our efforts to expand the facility of Health and Medical Science at the Asante-Akyem campus”, Prof. Sraku-Lartey said.
According to him, the university in collaboration with the Kwahu Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana had embarked on a smallscale agricultural project in crops and animal husbandry at the PCG Agricultural station in the Kwahu North District (Afram Plains).
“The objectives are to increase our capacity to engage in large scale commercial farming and also use the station to provide outreach services in terms of training for the community members to improve their livelihoods”, he explained, adding that the college had trained over 1,200 farmers in the area to improve on their productivity.
Prof. Sraku-Lartey, expressed concern about the negative impact the internet and other electronic media had on the youth, and advised them to refrain from unhealthy lifestyles that could jeopardise their future ambitions.
For his part, the Paramount Chief of the Kwahu Traditional Area, Nana Akuamoa Boateng, commended the university for complimenting the government’s commitment to provide quality tertiary education in the country.
He, however, appealed to the government to support private universities with the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to enable them to live up to expectation in the delivery of quality tertiary education in the country.